Lady in the Straw — Maggie MacKeever

IT ALL BEGAN WITH A MISUNDERSTANDING.

Well, more of a hoax actually. Because when Vashti Beaufils, a beautiful French emigree, learned she had inherited her cousin Marmaduke's gothic mansion in England, she knew there must be some mistake. She had never even met Marmaduke.

She accepted anyway, only to find that her notorious cousin Valerie, who was very free with her favors, had impersonated her and had an affair with Marmaduke.

Vashti discovered that the mansion was really a gambling establishment -- and that the handsome Lord Stirling, one of Valerie's old beaux, thought she was up to no good....

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Heroine: Vashti Beaufils